David Carradine’s suicidal thoughts

The star of “Kung Fu” and “Kill Bill” may have hanged himself in a closet.

While David Carradine’s death in a Bangkok hotel room has yet to be confirmed a suicide, the actor talked about taking his own life in a 2004 interview with the Web site IGN.com:

“Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it’s bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn’t scare me at all.

“Look, there was a period in my life when I had a single action Colt 45, loaded, in my desk drawer. And every night I’d take it out and think about blowin’ my head off. And then decide not to and go on with my life. Put it back in the drawer and open up the laptop and continue writing my autobiography or whatever. But it was just to see.

“And then I remember one time sitting in the window of the third or fourth floor of the Plaza Hotel for about an hour thinkin’ about just tippin’ off. And that was at a time when I was having more fun than you could imagine. I just thought, ‘Who the f–k cares, man? Why don’t I just split.’ Of course I didn’t, so there you go.”